#ld

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#art #disguise #mirth #most #seen

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. ↗

— Robert South

#discouragement #fresh #never #rather #should

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. ↗

— Robert South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. ↗

— Robert South

#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

#consisting #each #fame #famous #greece

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ↗

— Bill Frist

#depends #expansion #freedom #hope #increasingly

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#another #appeared #barn #brought #clean

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#i #me #out #senses #sister

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#answer #bear #blasphemy #continued #could

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. ↗

— Terry Southern

#dramatic #dramatic way #end #end of the world #girl